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Andre, Christopher Brooks.

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Dollars: International monetary order, the nation-state and the development of literary modernism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dollars: International monetary order, the nation-state and the development of literary modernism./
Author:	Andre, Christopher Brooks.
Description:	421 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-02, Section: A, page: 4450.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-02A.
Subject:	Comparative literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9722539
ISBN:	9780591312959

Dollars: International monetary order, the nation-state and the development of literary modernism.
Andre, Christopher Brooks.

Dollars: International monetary order, the nation-state and the development of literary modernism. - 421 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-02, Section: A, page: 4450.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duke University, 1997.

Literary modernism developed in concert with both the institutionalization of the dollar as the medium of international exchange and the standardization of national languages. The signal formal feature of modernist literature is its consistent departure from conventional syntax and narrative structure; this departure from convention must be understood in the context of the increased standardization of language within the political framework of the nation-state. While the historical period generally characterized as being modernist does contain a significant number of modernist texts, the persistence of literary modernism well beyond this historical period, particularly in the developing world, indicates that literary modernism becomes manifest more through a particular relationship between literary production and the political situation of language than through an aesthetic teleology. The burden of proof for this argument rests on a comparison between two national literatures--the U.S. and Britain--during the transitional period during which British free-trade imperialism was in decline and the U.S. free-market system was in the ascendance. By comparing writers from the U.S. and Britain during the period 1910-60, it can be seen that while the U.S. consistently produced writers whose use of language reflected a concern for the political situation of language, Britain produced such writers only with the post-World War II domestic welfare-state and the decline of the sterling area. When considered with respect to the development of the free-market system and the nation-state, the formal characteristics of literary modernism can be understood to correspond to the pressures placed on language during the standardization and institutionalization of a single national language. In contradistinction to versions of modernism which combine all forms of cultural production into a unified mode of representation made manifest through different media, this manner of approaching literary modernism allows for an understanding of the unique position of language as a medium of social unification and homogenization during the twentieth century. This approach to literary modernism also allows for a relative de-periodization of the term modernism, insofar as the conditions of possibility of literary modernism can be understood to relate more to the political relationship between language and the nation-state than to the particular aesthetic exigencies of the modernist period.

ISBN: 9780591312959Subjects--Topical Terms:

570001
Comparative literature.

Dollars: International monetary order, the nation-state and the development of literary modernism.
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